August 2nd, 2010
As we’ve just completed our monthly file backups, we thought it would be a good time to remind everyone of how our backup services work. We take our hosting services very seriously, and as part of our redundancy and protection systems, we take regular backups of your site. File backups are taken once a month, and database backups are taken once a week. Your backups are stored offsite for one month.
If you need to access your backup, please contact us as soon as possible to have the greatest chance of recovering your important files and website.
Tags: backup, hosting
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June 23rd, 2010
For those of you who have been using the Skype Web Status button to display your online/offline status on your webpage, you may have noticed that it can’t be used on SSL secure pages. An internet search reveals many people looking for this same thing from Skype – an ability to use the Skype web status button on a secure page, such as a shopping cart payment page.
Including the default non-secure version on an “https:” SSL secured page will cause your client’s browsers to display ‘insecure’ messages, or fail to display the lock icon and certificate information associated with a secure page. This can reduce consumer confidence in your service, as well as look unprofessional.
We’ve developed a fix for it – with just a small upload and a change in the default Skype web status code, you can now include your web status on ANY page, secure or not. You can see an example of it working on our website contact page.
We welcome your comments and any questions regarding the installation and use of this code.
If you missed our original Skype web status article, check it out here on how to keep your Skype web status online behind a firewall.
Tags: certificate, https, insecure, offline, online, secure, skype, ssl, status, web
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June 20th, 2010
If you’re currently running WordPress on your site, you’ll be excited to hear about the release of WordPress 3.0. With the new version comes several exciting new features – including multi-site, a new, lighter interface, bulk plugin upgrades, and hundreds of bug fixes.
All of our clients who are running managed/preconfigured WordPress on their site have now been upgraded to the latest version. Please let us know if you have any problems.
For those who haven’t heard about WordPress, it’s a blogging platform especially designed to be easy to use, and allows you to edit the pages of your website, as well as post news, blogs, images and video to your website.
As well as installing, configuring and managing WordPress websites, we also create custom themes, plugins and widgets. We can create you a brand new theme, or convert an existing website design into a WordPress theme. Our custom plugins and widgets can provide your site with that extra functionality you need, such as a user forum or custom post types such as a magazine. Please contact us to find out more.
Tags: 3.0, custom, development, plugin, skin, theme, upgrade, widget, wordpress
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